To conflict each other

Abstract

This is a traditional fable raising questions about advertising. A weapons dealer proclaiming the quality of his goods offers both a sword that can pierce anything and a shield that will stop any weapon. Children in the town ask him what will happen if his sword strikes his shield. People laugh, and he leaves town without any sale. The stated moral is "We should speak the truth, unless, it will be harm ourselves." One might wonder about this moral. The English is sometimes difficult in this story, as is clear in its title and moral. Might that title be better if it were "An Internal Contradiction"? The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink. The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover. The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".